To Mentor with the Wild; with Sophie Strand
Becoming Nature Podcast
Sophie Strand is a writer based in the Hudson Valley who focuses on the intersection of spirituality, storytelling, and ecology. But it would probably be more authentic to call her a neo-troubadour animist with a propensity to spin yarns that inevitably turn into love stories. Her first book of essays The Flowering Wand: Lunar Kings, Lichenized Lovers, Transpecies Magicians, and Rhizomatic Harpists Heal the Masculine is forthcoming in 2022 from Inner Traditions. Her eco-feminist historical fiction reimagining of the gospels The Madonna Secret will also be published by Inner Traditions. ...
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Meeting Mortality with Sarah Kerr
Becoming Nature Podcast
Sarah has been a death doula and ritual healing practitioner since 2012. Her work helps dying people and their families connect with each other, and with the innate wisdom of the dying process. Sarah’s approach draws on nature-based spirituality, sacred sciences, and the richness of the human soul. She designs and facilitates ceremonies that help her clients to integrate experiences of death, loss, and transformation. These rituals honour the spiritual significance of what’s happening, and bring healing to the living, the dying, and the dead.
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Roots and Stitching ourselves back together with Jan Blake
Becoming Nature Podcast
As one of the leading storytellers, Jan Blake has been performing worldwide for over twenty-five years. Specialising in stories from Africa, the Caribbean, and Arabia, she has a well-earned reputation for dynamic and generous storytelling. Recent highlights include Hay Festival, where she was storyteller in-residence, the Viljandi Harvest Festival in Estonia and TEDx Warsaw. As well as performing at all the major storytelling festivals both nationally and internationally, she works regularly with the British Council, leads storytelling workshops for emerging storytellers, and gives...
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Kinship and Foraging Stories with Gavin Van Horn
Becoming Nature Podcast
Executive Editor at the Gavin Van Horn, joins on for a conversation about kinship. How it is beyond genetics and more about the relational.
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Discovering the cracks in the mirror, with Bayo Akomolafe
Becoming Nature Podcast
This conversation has invited me to look at those in my mirror. Where I try to polish and where I accept the invitation. In the broader scale where we in West are so busy polishing that our arms are falling off.
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Rewilding Farmland with David Katznelson
Becoming Nature Podcast
How easy is it to buy farmland and give it back to nature. This is what we are talking about today.
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Will of the Wild with Jay Griffiths
Becoming Nature Podcast
Jay Griffiths talks about
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Angaangaq - melting the ice in the heart of man
Becoming Nature Podcast
Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq is a shaman, traditional healer, storyteller and carrier of the Qilaut (winddrum), whose family belongs to the traditional healers of the Far North from Kalaallit Nunaat, Greenland. His name means ‘The Man Who Looks Like His Uncle’. Since he was a child he was trained by his family- especially by his Grandmother Aanakasaa – for becoming a shaman. The spiritual task given by his mother is: “Melting the Ice in the Heart of Man”.
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The Body and Envisioning a New World with Stefana Serafina
Becoming Nature Podcast
My dear friend and mentor Stefana Serafina is our guest today. Her work has transformed my life.
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Plant Whispering with Rachel Corby
Becoming Nature Podcast
Rachel Corby is a very special teacher, and I’ve had the privilege to have her teach courses 2 years in a row.
info_outlineThis conversation is with Leah Lamb. She is a storyteller, a writer and thinker. An activist. Last year I joined her course and dived in to the world of storytelling and storytellers from around the world. This art is revolutionary and we are all storytellers. So what stories are we telling? Listening to? And trusting?
Leah Lamb is a writer and producer. She is the creator of Soul Stories and the Speak the Spark, storytelling for a new paradigm, program.
Her work plays with a lexicon that weaves myths, archetypes, and the hero’s journey into our modern world. She’s been a voice for the environment as a producer and host of the green channel at Current TV, and have written for Fast Company, Vice, Spirituality & Health Magazine, National Geographic News Watch, GOOD, The Huffington Post, and the Discovery Channel’s Planet Green.